3 September / Intro: Architectures of Charlie Chaplin
In-class screening:
Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times
10 September / Research and “Space-Time”
Kazys Varnelis, Is there research in the studio?
Javier Arbona, The Rise of the DARists
Siegfried Giedion, Excerpts “Space-Time,” from Space, Time and Architecture, and “Movement,” from Mechanization Takes Command
17 September / Media
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message
Recommended:
Friedrich Kittler, The History of Communication Media
24 September / Feedback: Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics in History
Gordon Pask, The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics
Stafford Beer, The Disregarded Tools of Modern Man
1 October / Dromology: Paul Virilio
1977: Unable Bodies, from Speed and Politics
1984: The Overexposed City, from The Lost Dimension
2012: Excerpts, from The Administration of Fear
Recommended:
Benjamin H. Bratton, Logistics of Habitable Circulation
8 October / Situations and Spectacles
Guy Debord, Theses 1-34 from The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord, Preliminary Problems in Constructing a Situation
Lucy Suchman, Preface and Situated Actions, from Plans and Situated Actions
15 October / Pervasive Computing
Mark Weiser, The Computer for the 21st Century
Anthony Dunne, The Electronic as Post-Optimal Object
Recommended: Interactivity
JCR Licklider, Man-Computer Symbiosis
Myron Krueger, Responsive Environments
Nicholas Negroponte, Architecture Machine
22 October / Consciousness
Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Excerpts from The Railway Journey
Recommended:
Sanford Kwinter, The Complex and the Singular
EVENING SCREENING:
Michelangelo Antonioni, BLOW-UP
29 October / Body
Manfred Clynes & Nathan Kline, Cyborgs and Space
Donna Hardaway, A Cyborg Manifesto
William J. Mitchell, Wireless Bipeds
Recommended:
N. Katharine Hayles, Excerpts from How We Became Posthuman
5 November / Bubbles
P. Reyner Banham, A Home is not a House
Felicity Scott, Blow-Up
Hadas Steiner, Bubbles: The Triumph of Software
Buckminster Fuller, Scientific Dwelling Service, from Nine Chains to the Moon
Recommended:
Ant Farm, Inflatocookbook
In-class screening:
Ant Farm, Media Burn
12 November / Mobs
Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many, from Smart Mobs
Jordan Geiger, Entr’acte
Anthony Townsend, The Real Social Life of Wireless Public Places
Recommended:
Elias Canetti, Excerpts from Crowds and Power
Critical Art Ensemble, Electronic Civil Disobedience
In-class screening:
William Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
19 November / Worlds
Laura Kurgan, Representation and the Necessity of Interpretation
Benjamin H. Bratton, Cloud Megastructures and Platform Utopias
Recommended:
Keller Easterling, Zone: The Spatial Softwares of Extrastatecraft
Rem Koolhaas, Bigness, or the Problem of Large
Jordan Geiger, Niagora
In-class screening:
Eames Office, Powers of Ten
BONUS EVENING SCREENING:
The Truman Show
26 November / No Class / Thanksgiving
3 December / No Class / Final Presentations
17 December / No Class / Final Paper Due
